Registration-card



A-QR MUTTON.

REGISTRATION CARD.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 26, 1917.

1,333,439. PafientedMar. 9,1920.

Notice! Read gmu' meter NOW 5! in this card lnm slot on top of meter; push samedovm amr Inventor, Arthur R. Mutton, by

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Application filed J'anuary as, .1917. Serial No. 144,739.

To all whom it may concern: l

V as shown, is oblong, and has printed or Be it known that I, ARTHUR R. MUTTON, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of WVaterloo, Blackhawk county, Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Registration-Cards, of which the following is a specification. My invention relates to improvements in registration cards, and the object of my im provement is to supply relatedregistration spaces and selective indicative means on such a card, adapting it for use'in connection with meter registering devices or the like.

This object I have accomplished by the sub-divided patterned card shown in the ac companying drawing, and which is hereinafter described and claimed.

The card shown is particularly arranged for use in the impressing, puncturing or otherwise recording upon it indicative signs or data by means of special, mechanism on a meter registering device,such as a meter for automatically measuring electrical current,

water or gas. For th1s purpose the card may have one face sub-divided as shown, into a plurality of separated spaces to receive related data or other information desired.

The card may be of any shape or size, but

otherwise displayed on its ends 4 the dupli cate rows of circles 5, each circle having .therein an annular concentric row of successive numerals usually 111 a decnnal series,

with numerals just without indicative of the ascending decimal multiples of the successive series, and with the numerals in the circles alternately reversed in relative positions to properly correspond with card piercing means carried by the gear mechanism of the meter in the registering device in which the card is placed for a record to be made thereon. An inclosed space 2 may be provided midway along one longitudinal edge of the card, toreceive directions for using the card. A blank space 1 is left directly opposite the inclosed space 2, and may be employed to receive the name and address of the user of the meter. Spaces are left between the meter registration circles 5 and the said middle spaces 1 and 2, to receive die impressed embossed numerals 3 adjacent to printed a printed designation words N umber at giving'the identifying number of the meter. These embossed numerals may be impressed on the card by the registering device to accompany punctured. or slotted records 6 on the numerals within the clrcles 5, whereby there is preserved on the card a complete registration of the condition of the meter current measuring means at the instant of registration, with means for identifying the particular meter.

My registration card is of course complete for a single registration, if made with but a single set of registration circles 5, but Ihave provided a duplicate set of these circles on the other end of the card, so that one card may be employed to take registrations from two meters used by one person, orto take two readings from the same meter.

These'diflerent compartments or registration spaces may be otherwise displayed orarranged on the card without departing from the principle of my invention, since it is my purpose to have them properly conform to the requirements for use in the particular registering device, without being arbitrarily confined to the special means shown. f

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:'

1. A perforable record card for meters, the same consisting of a leaf having a printed representation along one end of the dials of-a meter omitting the indicators; having adjacent thereto a reserved space and for the characters to be embossed upon the. reserved space, and also having on the. same face a printed notice and a space for a'name and address; said printed dials being perforable by perforating" indicators on ameter, and the said reserved space being adapted to be embossed simultaneously with the meternumber.

2. A perforable duo-record card'for meters, the same consisting of a leaf having printed representations alongopposite ends of the dials of a meter omitting the indicators; having adjacent both sets of said UNITED printed dials reserved spaces to receive em- 7 thediale therein, and the embossing ef the Signed at Waterloo, Iowa, this QBd'day numeral in each reserved space being simulof J anuary, 1917.

printed (lie-1's adjacent thereto, the setsfqf taneous With the perforating of: the set of ARTHUR 'M dials at opposite'ends of the card being er- Witnesses: ranged in inverse relation r With regerdto 1 PEARL STANTON, eaeh other. I G, KENNEDY. 

